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(No Model.)

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NEGKTTB HOLDER.

No.'5212,4s7.. Patent ed Ju1y3,1894.

THE'NORRIS PETERS 00., Pnmouruo WASHINGTON n. c.

UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGEN STAELIN, or OALW, QERMANYJ NECKTlE-HOLDERQ SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 522,437, dated July- 3, 1

llpplicatlon filed January 3, 1894- Serial No. 495,532. (No model.)

To aZZ .whom) it may confccrn:

Be it known that LEUGEN STAEL IN, a subject of the King of Wi'Irtemberg, residing at Oalw, a city of the Kingdom of VViirtcmberg, Germany, have invented certain newand usef ulImprove'ments in Cravat-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to a cravat fastener, which serves to fasten the cravat to the collar stud.

This cravat fastener is shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows the fastener in vertical-section. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a perspective View, and Fig. 4 shows the fastener with a slight modification.

The cravat fastener Figs. 1 to 3 consists of a strip of sheet metal which is so shaped,

by means of pressing or stamping, that it consists of an upper outwardly projecting part a and a lower part b, which rests flat on the cardboard back 0. The cardboard back 0 is covered over with some suitable material and is fastened to the back of the cravat'in the usual manner. The top part (1 of the stamped metal strip a, b, is folded over the top edge of the pasteboard sheet 0, and the lower part of the same is provided with two projecting ton gues fiwhich are passed through the cardboard back 0 and then folded over. 'In this manner the metal plate a b is firmly vfixed to the cardboard or the cravat. The

' metal form is now provided with a slot in both the upper and-lower parts a and b. The

narrow part 9 of the slot is only slightly broader than the diameter of the shank of the collar stud, as measured close to the head of the same. This narrow slot g is situated Wholly in the outwardly bentpart a of the metal strip and is continued downward to about the middle of the part a which forms the downwardly bent termination of the outwardly bent portion a of the metal strip. The narrow part g of the slot iscontinued by the broader part g, which, beginning in the middle of the part a, reaches nearly to the lower end of the level part b of the metal strip. The slot g is slightly wider than the diameter of the head of the collar stud.

7 When the cravat is to be fastened to the stud Fig. 1, the former is held against the head D of the stud in such a manner that the latter lies in the wider slot g. The cravat is then pushed downward and at the same time pressed slightly against the head D, whereby the said head is forced through that part of the slot, situated in the part a of the metal strip, and underneath the'edges a into the outwardly bent part a of the metal fastener. The shank E of the stud is thereby pushed into the narrow slot 9. The cravat is now securely held and cannot of itself become loose because the closed end of the slot 9 and the downwardly projecting edges 0, prevent the escape of the stud fromthe top and bottomof the slot g. The removal of the cravat from the stud is now only possible when the cravat, while being pushed upward, is at the same time pressed against the head D of the stud with sufficient force to allow the latter to pass under the edges a The modification shown in Fig. 4 consists in forming the lower part of the metal plate open and consequently the wider slot 9 is extended quite through this lower part b. Further,-the part I) does not lie flat on the cardboard 0 but is raised slightly from the same as the part a is here not made so deep as in Figs. 1 to 3.

I claim- The herein described and shown necktie fastener formed of a single plate of metal with the upper raised portion a, having the narrow slot, the lower portion lying against the neck tie back and having the enlarged continuation of the slot, and the outwardly extended portion a, uniting said previously mentioned portions and wherein the wide and narrow 

